The World through the TV Screen. Everyday Life under Communism on the Western Romanian Border
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2012, Vol 17, Issue 17
Abstract
This paper focuses on the narratives of various people from Timișoara (a city in the Banat region of Romania) who were regular and heavy watchers of Yugoslav TV during the 1980s. These narratives represent fragments of oral history that picturesquely illustrate everyday life in the western border region of communist Romania, a region strongly influenced by the proximity of Yugoslavia. Together with a strong critical attitude towards the Romanian communist regime, all the respondents share a positive view of communist Yugoslavia and its system of values; in other words, they are Yugonostalgic.
Authors and Affiliations
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP256885
- DOI -
- Views 99
- Downloads 0
Afterword. Europe’s Guinea Pigs: Globalizing the Agricultural History of Southeastern Europe
One of the most remarkable features of the peasantry is its resilience to obituaries. In South-Eastern Europe, the peasants survived Marxist analysts who laid out that the peasants were oppressed and should thus join for...
Les relations interethniques pendant la période 1945 – 1990 à Alțâna (département de Sibiu). Etude de cas
Cette étude de cas étudie minutieusement l’évolution des relations interethniques et intercommunautaires entre les Roumains et les Saxons dans le village d’Alțâna (département de Sibiu), à partir de la Deuxième Guerre Mo...
The House of the Soul
The House of the Soul is the idea for an exhibition. We owe the idea in large part to the “Regions of Romania — The Buzău Region. Cultural and Natural Heritage as a Basis for Sustainable Development” project, initiated b...
Childhood in 2 Mai. An Insider’s Perspective
The holiday community established in the village of 2 Mai has always been a unique one, owing to the number of artists and intellectuals who chose this secluded beach settlement due to the sense of freedom it conveys, es...
Material Remembrance in Contentious Spaces: Framing Multi-Scalar Memories and National Culpability in the Museo della Fondazione della Shoah
In the last decade, several initiatives to build a state-of-the-art Holocaust museum in Rome have been proposed only to subsequently fail to materialize—primarily due to fund cuts. Instead, today, the Museo della Fondazi...